Journal article
How Home Child Care Providers Purchase, Prepare, and Serve Healthy Foods: In-Depth Interviews with Child and Adult Care Food Program Participants
Childhood obesity, Vol.18(7), pp.507-513
02/24/2022
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2021.0302
PMID: 35213249
Abstract
Child care settings can enhance children's access and exposure to healthy foods through participation in The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), which reimburses child care providers for purchasing healthy foods. To identify challenges and facilitators to CACFP participation, we carried out in-depth interviews with CACFP-participating home child care providers to discuss purchasing, preparing, and serving food under CACFP guidelines.
We carried out 20 in-depth telephone interviews with CACFP-participating home child care providers. Transcribed interviews were coded to develop themes using a deductive approach.
Interviews indicated that food costs still burden CACFP-participating child care providers despite reimbursements. CACFP-participating providers who described prioritizing healthy foods and nutrition showed a greater inclination toward purchasing, preparing, and serving healthy foods to children.
We offer recommendations for how to effectively support CACFP-participating providers in offering healthy food to their children within a food choice framework, a multilevel categorization of factors that influence food choice. Recommendations include increased reimbursement rates for food purchases under CACFP and support for peer-to-peer mentoring and health promotion programs targeting child care provider health.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- How Home Child Care Providers Purchase, Prepare, and Serve Healthy Foods: In-Depth Interviews with Child and Adult Care Food Program Participants
- Creators
- Helaina G Thompson - Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA, USAPatrick Brady - Division of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Minnesota, MN, USAPatti Delger - Team Nutrition, Iowa Department of Education, Des Moines, Des Moines, IA, USASarah Kersten - Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA, USASydney Evans - Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA, USAEliza Daly - Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA, USAHailey Boudreau - Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA, USAEssence Baymon - Winship Discovery Team in Clinical Research, Emory Winship Cancer Institute, Atlanta, GA, USAYeaseul Kim - Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA, USANatoshia M Askelson - Health Policy Research Program, University of Iowa Public Policy Center, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Childhood obesity, Vol.18(7), pp.507-513
- DOI
- 10.1089/chi.2021.0302
- PMID
- 35213249
- NLM abbreviation
- Child Obes
- eISSN
- 2153-2176
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/24/2022
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive); Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984221742202771
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